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ɫ��TV’s (GGC’s) School of Business (SBA) successfully earned reaccreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), an international accreditation body.

“AACSB accreditation ensures both a high-quality standard of teaching, research, curriculum, and learner success, and a relevancy and impact to the communities the business school serves,” said Dr. Tyler Yu, dean of GGC’s SBA.

The accreditation process involves rigorous internal focus. These standards require excellence in areas relating to strategic management and innovation

Officials broke ground yesterday on a 72,280 square-foot Convocation Center at ɫ��TV (GGC). Referred to by officials as the “new front door to campus,” the Convocation Center is part of a $48 million state-funded capital project that will include an infrastructure upgrade, including the creation of a central energy plant onsite.

GGC President Jann L. Joseph said the new building will reshape life on the college’s campus for students, faculty and staff, and the community for generations to come.

“The ɫ��TV Convocation Center will be more than a

ɫ��TV’s (GGC) School of Education has introduced an autism endorsement program for licensed teachers and other certified professionals. An autism endorsement program increases one’s knowledge in the area of teaching students with autism spectrum disorders. The program consists of nine hours of training that will be delivered online. GGC is one of nine USG institutions offering the Autism endorsement.

Dr. Matthew Boggan, professor of special education at GGC, said the program was created to respond to an increase in the number of students with autism in Gwinnett County K

(GFPE) has awarded a prestigious innovation pilot grant to the ɫ��TV Foundation in support of math tutoring for elementary school students in need of targeted support. The Innovative Education Fund Prototype Grant was awarded over one year to pilot an innovative education program that “has the potential to impact student outcomes and transform teaching and learning practices at the school or district.”

Dr. Amber Ebert, assistant professor in science education and department chair of Secondary Education for Georgia Gwinnett

First- through 10th-grade students showed off their math skills at the annual Olifer Math Competition held on ɫ��TV’s (GGC) campus on March 25.

Mary Barboza Beltran was one of the more than 130 students who attended the event, hosted by GGC's School of Science and Technology. As she sat still in her chair, her eyes focused on the paper in front of her, the sixth grader from Dacula Middle School displayed an impressive amount of patience beyond her years as she methodically worked through each problem.

This was Barboza Beltran’s third Olifer competition. Her first

ɫ��TV (GGC) counselors traveled to Collins Hill High School on March 2 to offer Instant Decision Day (IDD) to high school seniors. The IDD event allowed college hopefuls to meet with admissions counselors, who helped them fill out GGC application forms and evaluated their transcripts. Students who met GPA requirements were provided an instant admissions decision on the spot. Twenty-one students were admitted to GGC at the event.

GGC has offered more than 50 IDD events to schools in Gwinnett County and Metro Atlanta since September with more to come, according to Lisa

ɫ��TV (GGC) will host its final in-person Preview Day for spring semester from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. March 25. Prospective students will hear from members of the Grizzly family about programs of study, admissions, financial aid, student housing and more. Participants will be able to tour GGC’s campus and talk to student ambassadors about their experiences at GGC. The event will include food, music and fun giveaways. GGC team members will host selected breakout sessions in Spanish.

GGC application fees will be waived in March.

Register for Preview Day at www.ggc.edu

With the rising demand for workers in STEM-related fields, a ɫ��TV (GGC) program is working to attract younger generations to STEM careers.

GGC partners with local schools to offer its Super Saturday Series, which provides middle school students hands-on experience in biology, chemistry, exercise science and information technology (IT), through participation in activities presented by GGC’s faculty, staff and student volunteers.

GGC initially focused on female students when it began the Super Saturday Series in 2011 as a way to break preconceptions and to increase the

ɫ��TV (GGC) is continuing its upward trajectory of student enrollment this spring.

Recently released data indicates that GGC’s total spring student headcount, including new, transfer and returning students, is up 5% over this time last year. First-year freshman are up 52% from spring 2022, according to Dr. Michael Poll, GGC’s vice president of enrollment management and institutional research.

Poll also said that student transfers into the college are up 14%, new students are up 29% and students returning to the college are up 2.3%.

“At a time when most colleges and

Jamarius Strong-Williams has dreams of working in healthcare. The 19-year-old ɫ��TV (GGC) majors in biology with a concentration in biochemistry in the hope of someday becoming a surgeon. But Strong-Williams said that having grown up in the town of Covington, about 35 miles southeast of Atlanta, he felt that such big dreams were elusive for a small-town African American male, where the poverty rate is 21%, nearly double the average of the poverty rate in Georgia.

“Where I come from, there are not many people – really anybody at all – who say they want to be things; its